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Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Instana Dashboard Dark Mode

Our client has requested the addition of a dark mode feature to the Instana dashboard to improve usability and align with their needs. This feature would enhance accessibility for users with light sensitivity. It also reflects industry standards, ...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Under review

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 5 Under review

Alert Suppession with multiple NOT conditions is not working as expected

Alert Suppression with multiple NOT conditions in INSTANA is not functioning as expected. When configuring suppression rules that include more than one NOT condition (e.g., NOT tag1=value1 AND NOT tag2=value2), alerts are still being triggered for...
19 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Adding additional tab to the services/kubernetes namespace dashboard with custom information

"We have a Service Catalog that includes the service name, service description, and contact information (name, phone, email, etc.) of the programmer or team responsible for support. Similarly, we also have a Namespace Catalog with comparable infor...
19 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
2 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Sort health column for application in custom table dashboard

We have created custom dashboard to visualize application health (Datasource: infrastructure, entity type: JVM) and want to add tag as column. unfortunately, if tag is added to this table, the health column disappears. We have java 17 applications...
22 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Process monitoring dashboard

We are using IBM ELM suite of applications on distributed environment and we have around 19 different applications running currently on our environment. We want to monitor that all our process on production are up and running fine. Hence we wanted...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review